San Antonio worker critical after plunge

By Alia Malik, San Antonio Express-News

Updated 12:17 pm, Monday, June 2, 2014

Photo: JOHN DAVENPORT, San Antonio Express-News

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Members of the San Antonio Fire Department's Technical Rescue Team remove an injured construction worker (bottom) Monday June 2, 2014 from a construction site at the corner of La Cantera Parkway and Vance Jackson. Battalion Chief Jonathon Jones said the worker fell before 10:00 a.m. about 15 feet off of a scaffold and was transported to University Hospital after being hoisted out of a structure being built below ground level. less

Members of the San Antonio Fire Department's Technical Rescue Team remove an injured construction worker (bottom) Monday June 2, 2014 from a construction site at the corner of La Cantera Parkway and Vance ... more

Photo: JOHN DAVENPORT, San Antonio Express-News

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Members of the San Antonio Fire Department's Technical Rescue Team remove an injured construction worker Monday June 2, 2014 from a construction site at the corner of La Cantera Parkway and Vance Jackson. Battalion Chief Jonathon Jones said the worker fell before 10:00 a.m. about 15 feet off of a scaffold and was transported to University Hospital. less

Members of the San Antonio Fire Department's Technical Rescue Team remove an injured construction worker Monday June 2, 2014 from a construction site at the corner of La Cantera Parkway and Vance Jackson. ... more

Photo: JOHN DAVENPORT, San Antonio Express-News

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Members of the San Antonio Fire Department's Technical Rescue Team remove an injured construction worker Monday June 2, 2014 from a construction site at the corner of La Cantera Parkway and Vance Jackson. Battalion Chief Jonathon Jones said the worker fell before 10:00 a.m. about 15 feet off of a scaffold and was transported to University Hospital. less

Members of the San Antonio Fire Department's Technical Rescue Team remove an injured construction worker Monday June 2, 2014 from a construction site at the corner of La Cantera Parkway and Vance Jackson. ... more

Photo: JOHN DAVENPORT, San Antonio Express-News

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Members of the San Antonio Fire Department's Technical Rescue Team prepare to transport an injured construction worker Monday June 2, 2014 from a construction site at the corner of La Cantera Parkway and Vance Jackson. Battalion Chief Jonathon Jones said the worker fell before 10:00 a.m. about 15 feet off of a scaffold and was transported to University Hospital. less

Members of the San Antonio Fire Department's Technical Rescue Team prepare to transport an injured construction worker Monday June 2, 2014 from a construction site at the corner of La Cantera Parkway and Vance ... more

Photo: JOHN DAVENPORT, San Antonio Express-News

San Antonio worker critical after plunge

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SAN ANTONIO — A construction worker was hospitalized in critical condition Monday morning after a fall into a concrete pit near The Rim shopping center.

The man, in his early 50s, fell 10 to 15 feet from scaffolding in the 17900 block of Interstate 10, said Christian Bove, spokesman for the San Antonio Fire Department. The man sustained a back injury, Bove said.

There was no way to walk the man out of the pit, so the San Antonio Fire Department lifted him using a platform truck, Bove said.

The fire department did not identify the man.

A supervisor at the scene referred questions about the man to T & D Moravits & Co., a concrete construction company that reportedly employs him. No one at the company was immediately available for comment.